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Bernardo A. Huberman and Fang Wu
Information Dynamics Laboratory, HP Labs
Abstract
We describe an efficient incentive mechanism for
P2P systems that generates a wide diversity of content offerings
while responding adaptively to customer demand. Files are served
and paid for through a parimutuel market similar to that
commonly used for betting in horse races. An analysis of the
performance of such a system shows that there exists an
equilibrium with a long tail in the distribution of content
offerings, which guarantees the real time provision of any
content regardless of its popularity.
full citation: "Bootstrapping the Long Tail in
Peer to Peer Systems", B. A. Huberman and F. Wu. First Workshop
on the Economics of Networked Systems (NetEcon06), ACM Conference on
Electronic Commerce, 56-61 (2006)
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